Word: unrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Deadline Pressure. Vorster's immediate concern is unrest at home. Over the past three months, 300 people have been killed and 1,600 injured in the continued rioting and violence within South Africa's black townships. Late last week violence spread to a white area for the first time, as 3,000 nonwhites clashed with police in central Cape Town. Over the long term, the U.S. hopes to persuade South Africa to abandon-or at least drastically modify-its system of apartheid, or racial separation. But for the moment, Kissinger and Vorster will concentrate on two problems...
...long run, the growth of Communist political influence poses a greater danger to the Marcos regime than the N.P.A.'s ineffectual military wing. At the same time, part of Marcos' problem is growing unrest-particularly among university students and the Christian churches-over the continuation of martial law, with its suspension of civil liberties. The government plans a referendum next month on the retention of martial law. Two previous referendums in 1973 and 1975 indicated yes by some 90%. This time the results are widely believed to have been equally lutong macao, or precooked...
...Super Bowl was obvious from the first day of training, when every member of the squad reported to Goucher with a signed contract. Thus the Colts began practice with no holdouts and no distractions-the only N.F.L. team to do so in an era of free agents and player unrest. While the players went through drills under muggy Maryland skies, the emphasis was on honing a club that would be young enough-average age: 25-to contend for years...
...production capabilities of a number of important basic industries, including chemicals and paper, are so limited that they could create bottlenecks that would impede the U.S. from cutting its unemployment rate much below 6% in the immediate future. Such a high jobless level means increasing welfare rolls and social unrest...
...treasury for six months, at no interest. The unemployment rate among the nation's black workers has already hit 20%; layoffs at the gold mines-which for the moment are maintaining employment-would make it even worse. The joblessness could intensify South Africa's explosive racial unrest...